From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd' Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:05:17 -0800 Message-ID: <7vbpguoo4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1263539762-8269-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> <1263539762-8269-2-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> <7vvdf3xiav.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <19280.51182.981853.561841@blake.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Aguilar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Lear X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 16 02:05:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVx6j-0008S9-9p for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:05:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758543Ab0APBFb (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758527Ab0APBF3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:29 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:35989 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758525Ab0APBFZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:25 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630C891264; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:25 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=mh9xdC79Wt+ihY6pZsfJ7UIEdpc=; b=s6uuqft7RGIMj/W1dsgiQKb Swua887771kQBXzga0A7T4bPxAZJsuQQ/Tk/2+HuXcLc9FmTKOk9eCTkyzUsdJMj qO5JDs0wYXUTsK6cPThf05zJhlip5FaPKDOls5Nvy4EuiXK+YkEb4vVtj8XolNPb ck8xMbdQmJ79n8m35VdA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=ihnmzraGttGJGP9cqkfy+jdPKrsBlELhFjVTF0IvziJaG52NW m+M9+4t6/YyJZQ+1ryWyhDsc0G1Ek3CplSs8DsRYA9crEV5gG6eXJ4e8GXey5bp8 sO74sezxW2sZFkAk29Uc6Uhj0INQRZiIc95yf5P19SEO/+p9vy4cUQTMYI= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC0691262; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5630E91261; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:05:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 38AB09E0-023B-11DF-BADD-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bill Lear writes: > On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 11:46:32 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>David Aguilar writes: >> >>> -# Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar >>> +# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 David Aguilar >> >>Just a very minor issue. I'd prefer to see: >> >> Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010 >> >>over >> >> Copyright (c) 2008-2010 > > Why? I learned this from . The advice doesn't say _why_, but my understanding of the rationale behind it is that the international convention that governs this copyright notice specifically mentions "the year of publication", not "range of years" (UCC Geneva text, Sept. 06, 1952, Article III 1.). Berne convention does not require such a copyright notice, and many countries are signatories of both treaties, so the whole copyright notice may be a moot point in many countries, but it matters in some. As long as the file (and the GNU advice cited above) is being cautious by having the notice, it would be better to be equally cautious and spell the years of publication out. But I am not a lawyer.